If I see a horde or anyone killing something nearby, I try to help if it looks like they need it.
Me too - although once in Hyjal I wound up flagged for PvP after I happened across a Blood Elf getting mobbed at one of those portals where you have to summon the spider. I'm not sure if I accidentally hit the PC or if it just works that way, but I was startled. Anyway, we killed the spider and the angry druids and both flew off, so it had a happy ending. :)
I think one reason that an RP-PVP server appeals to me is that in a way, I am helping other players when I do my part on the PVP front -- that we're all trying to tell a story together, I guess, is how my brain parses it, and that by trying to kill them, I'm helping to tell that story. And by them trying to kill me, they're also trying to tell that story. It isn't just players randomly deciding to interrupt one another's days with mayhem and murder.
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Me too - although once in Hyjal I wound up flagged for PvP after I happened across a Blood Elf getting mobbed at one of those portals where you have to summon the spider. I'm not sure if I accidentally hit the PC or if it just works that way, but I was startled. Anyway, we killed the spider and the angry druids and both flew off, so it had a happy ending. :)
I think one reason that an RP-PVP server appeals to me is that in a way, I am helping other players when I do my part on the PVP front -- that we're all trying to tell a story together, I guess, is how my brain parses it, and that by trying to kill them, I'm helping to tell that story. And by them trying to kill me, they're also trying to tell that story. It isn't just players randomly deciding to interrupt one another's days with mayhem and murder.